Visual Studio 6 & Windows 7 2

Hmmmm... This has been discussed before... And after a quick search with one of my friends (yahoo, google, ask, answers, bing) it seems that you will need to do something like the following...

Turn UAC off
Right Click on setup.exe and run as admin (do not autorun)
Don't install "Upgrade" Java VM

Note: You may have to revert to something like this to get it working

Then when it comes time for the installation of MSDN, don't auto install but once again run as admin.

As for service pack 6b, if the OS is 64 bit you will need to unpack it on a 32 bit OS first because there is a 16 bit bootstrapper...

Or you can download the XP virtualization...
and install to that...



Good Luck

The RTM Windows 7 may be able to "sense" the 16-bit bootstrapper now and automatically substitute a version that will run correctly under Win7-64.

I think this wasn't in Vista-64, but I get the idea that it may be in Win7. You can try installing SP6 first though, then if it fails do that unpacking previously mentioned.

On Vista-64 I didn't have to muck around with disabling UAC. I ran the base setup elevated and then the unpacked SP6 elevated. I don't recall doing anything special about the MS-JVM (probably said "go ahead" and Vista cleaned up afterward).

Thank you both for your replies.
I will try it and see how things go.

Thanks vb5prgrmr for the link.

I followed another posted link (replied query) that provided the following information to avoid the Java VM install:

Create a file named MSJAVA.DLL (it can be 0 bytes long, the important thing is to create a file with this name) and put it in your Windows directory. Now install VB6 and you shouldn't be bothered by the message. Once you have finished installing VB6, just delete that file and all should be well.

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So far VB6 seems to work without any issues.